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Five years into his career as an NFL head coach, Mike Tomlin had steered the Pittsburgh Steelers to four playoff berths, three division titles, two Super Bowls and one world championship. No one considered him another Lombardi, Walsh or Belichick, but the thought of Tomlin eventually joining the Peninsula's contingent at the Pro Football Hall of Fame was not a stretch. Then Pittsburgh declined to 8-8 records in 2012 and '13. Then the Steelers opened this season 3-3. Working for a model franchise that's employed three head coaches in the last 46 years, Tomlin didn't fear for his job. But .500 football does not begin to approach what he often calls “the...

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Five years into his career as an NFL head coach, Mike Tomlin had steered the Pittsburgh Steelers to four playoff berths, three division titles, two Super Bowls and one world championship. No one considered him another Lombardi, Walsh or Belichick, but the...

HAMPTON — Mike Tomlin's annual homecoming produced the expected result: mobilizing the local chapter of Steelers Nation and providing a celebrity boost for a favorite cause.
Tomlin, the Peninsula native and Pittsburgh Steelers' head coach, reprised his...

The New York Giants placed the franchise tag on defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul after the 26-year-old rebounded from two injury-plagued seasons. The Giants made the move Monday, guaranteeing that their first-round draft pick of 2010 will make at least...

The questions were similar, and Dorial Green-Beckham had virtually the same response for each one. "I'm disappointed in myself for all those things I did at Missouri," said the wide receiver, who spent last season on the sideline in large part...

Jay Feely was a Bear for a month and figured it out: Jay Cutler isn’t a leader and can’t grow into it.
“I don’t think so,’’ Feely said Wednesday on Sirius XM radio. “Not as a leader. That’s not who he is. You’re going to have a vacuum there. So you...

On Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis, George McCaskey helped lead his mother into an executive suite at TCF Bank Stadium. Virginia McCaskey, 91 years old, the daughter of George Halas and the proud matriarch of a storied football franchise, gracefully...

It was with a nod to the franchise's past and year of inception that George McCaskey changed the address of Halas Hall to 1920 Football Drive in 2011 shortly after taking the reins of the Bears as chairman of the board.
He's still trying to point the...

Square one for George McCaskey and Ted Phillips was inside the Halas Hall news conference room on Monday. At the end of a dysfunctional 5-11 season, there they were, discussing another search for a general manager and coach.
It has been only three...

The New York Giants made it official, hiring Ravens secondary coach Steve Spagnuolo as their defensive coordinator.
The Giants announced the hire after sources told The Baltimore Sun that Spagnuolo had landed the job.
Sources said that Spagnuolo emerged...

When offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak informed team officials on Sunday that he was planning on staying with the organization, it appeared that one of the Ravens’ primary offseason concerns had been lifted.
But the Ravens, who learned Thursday that...

Three days after the Ravens' season ended with a divisional round playoff loss to the New England Patriots, John Harbaugh expressed confidence in the organization's future, and the chances of offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak remaining part of it.
...

They say the NFL is the most popular game in America.
Apparently, it's pretty cool.
Sure would be nice to have pro football in Florida.
What they are playing now in Miami, Jacksonville and Tampa can't be pro football.
It's not even a good...

Top-ranked Kentucky absolutely humiliated UCLA Saturday, scoring the first 24 points of the game, leading 41-7 at halftime and going on to an 83-42 victory in Chicago. Sadly for UCLA, this mess was on national television. It looked like one of those...

One of the great legacies of George Steinbrenner is the Yankee Silver Shield Foundation, which the late Yankees' owner created in 1982 to fund the education for children of police officers and firefighters in the tri-state area who are killed in the...

A few Christmas songs adapted for sports purposes:
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire): The heat is always pretty intense in New York. Ask Rex Ryan, Tom Coughlin, anyone on the Knicks. Fans are ready to roast all of them. By the...

How amazing that Adam Vinatieri, 42, remains such an elite placekicker after all these years. It was way back in 1996 that Bill Parcells gave him a job with the Patriots that had been held by Matt Bahr. Later that season, Vinatieri was kicking in the...

Once you get through all the words spoken at the Bears' "Black Monday" news conference, you get the feeling the Bears are doing more of the same.
More of the same firings and hirings. More of the same business structure. More of the same...

Michigan made the statement it needed to, hiring Jim Harbaugh as coach. The Wolverines get someone who played for them, had a long NFL career as a player and has won as a coach at the college and NFL levels. There has been a lot of bad news associated...

Is there any chance Virginia McCaskey once gave Rex Ryan a Christmas gift?
I ask because the Bears always lean toward hiring based on previous connections, and being Buddy Ryan’s son counts as a previous connection -- previous connection to the...

The Show Me State . . . just did.
It was misery in Missouri on Sunday for the teams in last season's Super Bowl. Seattle lost at Kansas City, and Denver fell at St. Louis.
The Chiefs moved into a two-way tie for first in the AFC West by virtue of...